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Roku Partners With Disney, Means Free Short Form Content

Disney Becomes The Latest To Announce A Roku Channel, Is Now Offering "Hundreds" Of Free Short-Form Videos For Free
By on Wednesday, 21. September 2011

Those with a Roku set-top box in their home who also happen to be fans of Disney (or have kids who are fans of Disney) may want to check out this latest news — a Disney channel has recently come available for the Roku. And best of all, the channel [...]

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Facebook Scales Down Media Service Efforts

Facebook Reconsiders Integrated Media Service Approach, But Will Closely Integrate User Logins With Media Providers
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

Facebook was earlier reported to be planning a full-fledged media sharing service in partnership with music and video providers. Recent news suggests that Facebook is scaling back on its efforts.

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Logitech Announces Harmony Link

Harmony Link Turns Your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch & Android Devices Into Universal Remote Controls
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

Logitech just announced the Harmony Link system that can turn your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android smartphones into universal remote controls. The Harmony Link system has two components. The first is a device that translates the instructions you input into infrared commands your appliances can read. And the second [...]

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Padzilla Case Gives You Up To A 150-Inch iPad Screen

Plug Your iPad Into The Padzilla Case & Get An iPad Measuring Up To 150 Inches Diagonal
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

We’ve seen table-sized touchscreens before, from Microsoft Surface and beyond, but this may well be the first time in recent memory I’ve seen an Apple equivalent, and the strange part is, it isn’t even an Apple device. It’s the Padzilla case from the folks at Crunchy Logistics, and what they’re [...]

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Hulu Plus For Android Updated, Brings Additional Device Support

Hulu Plus Android App Updated With Support For 8 Additional Smartphones & 1 Tablet
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

It looks like there may be a bit of good news for Hulu Plus subscribers looking to use the service on their Android device. Well, good news assuming you have one of the eight newly listed smartphones or the one newly listed tablet.

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White iPod Touches May Be Coming Soon, 3G iPod Touches Look Shaky In Newest Report

Confluence Of Reports Suggests That The White iPod Touch May Be Coming Sooner Than Expected, But Maybe Not With 3G
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

New reports out today suggest that the idea of a white iPod Touch may not be so outlandish after all, and better yet, we may be looking at seeing these hit sooner rather than later. The down side? They may not have the 3G people were hoping to see when [...]

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Next Year's Macs May Offer 4K Resolution Support

Addition Of Ivy Bridge, Thunderbolt, And New Cables May Allow For Ultra High Definition On Macs In 2012
By on Tuesday, 20. September 2011

A bit of a speculative piece for you, folks, as there are reports making the rounds that, due to a major-league combination of Ivy Bridge, Thunderbolt, and a set of new cables, Macs of 2012 may be able to support the 4K resolution standard, or offer up pixel dimensions of [...]

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Verizon, Comcast, & Microsoft In Talks To Get Television To Xbox 360

Xbox 360 Units May Serve As Comcast & Verizon FiOS Cable Receivers Under New Deal Among The Three
By on Monday, 19. September 2011

Seems Microsoft’s taking another run at the digital television space, but this time, they won’t be going it alone. Current word is that Microsoft is in talks with both Comcast and Verizon to back up their efforts to get the Xbox 360 into the television game.

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Netflix Abruptly Pulls Streaming Movies From Users' Lists

Queued Watch Instantly Titles Not Yet Available Are Suddenly Hidden From Users' View With No Notice
By on Monday, 19. September 2011

Netflix has been ridiculed as of late not just for raising prices but for making changes without notice. In fact, CEO Reed Hastings just recently sent out an email apologizing for the way the new charging structure came down. Interestingly it seems this way of doing things hasn’t quite stopped. [...]

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Hulu Auction Reportedly Plagued By Lowball Bids

Word Suggests That The Hulu Auction Has Been Slowed Down By Bargain-Hunting Suitors
By on Monday, 19. September 2011

We’ve been following the Hulu auction out here, and wondering just who was going to walk away with all the marbles and a whole lot of content agreements. Thing is, there haven’t been a whole lot of updates since we last got the word that Google was back in the [...]

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